Browsing Public Health & Primary Care (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Methodological considerations in the development of small area deprivation indices
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2007)Health inequalities exist such that people with lower incomes and poorer social conditions experience poorer health. When individual level characteristics are aggregated to an area level, the socioeconomic status or ... -
Modelling the cost-effectiveness of cancer prevention : reframing models to better match policy questions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)This thesis comprises six papers concerning methodological issues in cost- effectiveness analysis (CEA) of healthcare interventions. The unifying theme to these studies is the reframing of CEAs to better correspond to the ... -
Patient and family participation in healthcare design and delivery in a psychiatry and a type 2 diabetes service
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)Background: There is no consensus on the best way to include patients and family in healthcare design and delivery. This PhD aimed to develop, implement and test the feasibility of an intervention to encourage patient and ... -
Peer support in type 2 diabetes : a radomised controlled trial in primary care
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2010)Type 2 diabetes has now reached epidemic proportions in many countries. Self management programmes for type 2 diabetes have recently moved away from the traditional didactic interventions to patient empowerment and peer-led ... -
Psychosocial determinants of glycaemic control in people with type two diabetes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2006)Whilst the number of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes continues to rise to epidemic proportions, there has been a more moderate rise in the acknowledgement of the psychosocial factors that play a role in the treatment ... -
A qualitative study exploring policy-amenable factors influencing medical device-related patient safety from a lifecycle perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2024)Thesis Title: A qualitative study exploring policy-amenable factors influencing medical device-related patient safety from a lifecycle perspective Author: Kathleen Rose Harkin Abstract Introduction: Medical devices ... -
Reducing Sedentary Behaviour in the Workplace: A Theory-led Multicomponent Intervention
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2021)There is strong evidence demonstrating that there is a relationship between greater time spent in sedentary behaviour (SB) and greater all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality and incidence, type 2 diabetes ... -
The role of vitamin D and UVB on the risk and survival of oesophageal and gastric cancer
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2018)The Role of Vitamin D and UVB on the Risk and Survival of Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer By Fiona O?Sullivan Background: Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin which has many sources. Currently, there are numerous ways in ... -
Strategy Selection and Comparison in the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cancer Screening
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2023)Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is well-established in application to cancer screening programmes. CEAs of screening differ from analyses of therapeutic interventions as the choice of strategies for comparison is not ... -
The chronic ills of multimorbidity : a cross-sectional examination of the prevalence, patterns and factors associated with multimorbidity in the Irish population aged 50 years and over and its corresponding impact on health and social care utilisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)Multimorbidity predicts many adverse health outcomes, placing a heavy burden on the individual as well as population health. It has clear implications for current healthcare provision and with the projected ageing of the ... -
The development of appropriate and consistent information for policy-making in post-conflict settings : lessons from the use of a household survey in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2012)This study looks at the challenges in developing a national health information system (HIS) that is ‘fit for purpose’ to support policy-making in poorly resourced and postconflict settings. It examines how, and to what ... -
The distribution and determinants of home-based social care utilisation in older people : Irish and comparative perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2012)The demand for home-based long-term care Is expected to grow as our population ages. This thesis aimed to address current knowledge deficits related to the distribution and determinants of home-based social care utilisation ... -
The effect of HIV / AIDS on households' access to, perceptions and determinants of willingness to pay for water, sanitation and hygiene in Uganda
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)Improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is of critical importance in reducing WASH-related diseases among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The frequency of diarrhoea and skin infections among PLWHA is closely ... -
The natural history of injecting drug use in a Dublin community (1985-1995)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2000)The number of drug users within Ireland and the European Union is increasing. It is estimated that there are about 14 thousand drug users in Ireland and a total of between 1.5 and 2 million within the European Union. Drug ... -
Understanding lived experiences and contextual realities of Ebola outbreaks: A case studies approach in Western Uganda
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2018)Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is caused by a highly infectious and fatal filovirus of zoonotic origin among human and primate populations on the African continent. EVD is classified as a potential ?public health emergency of ... -
Understanding volunteer community health worker motivation : a longitudinal cohort study in Sierra Leone
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)Governments and non-profit organisations are once again turning to alternative cadres of health workers in an effort to accelerate health targets and address the severe global shortage of human resources for health. In low ... -
Vitamin D in the Irish Population: an analysis of prevalence and determinants
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2023)Introduction: Vitamin D has an established role in bone and muscle health, with deficiency causing rickets in children, osteomalacia in adults and contributing to the development of osteoporosis. More recently it has been ...